Strasbourg, Johann Schott, (14 April) 1534. Folio (212 x 308 mm). (186) ff. With full-page woodcut on fol. 6v showing Saints Cosmas and Damian, the patron saints of physicians. Contemporary full vellum binding. First edition of this Renaissance dictionary of natural science compiled by Otto Brunfels, the "father of German botany", best known for pioneering the emancipation of that field from mediaeval herbalism. "Brunfels' passion for compiling and organizing reference material [.] was fully exhibited in his 'Onomastikón', a comprehensive dictionary containing a wealth of material related to medicine, botany, alchemy, and metrology" (DSB). Designed "for the use of physicians and apothecaries" (ibid.), the volume bears ample witness to the pre-eminence of Arabic medicine during the Middle Ages and early modern period, including a long discussion of Galenus, whose works were channeled into the West mainly through Arabic scholars, and entries on Ibn Sina (Avicenna), "natione Arabs, [.] a medicis Princeps vocatur", as well as Ibn Rushd (Averroes), "Avicennae coaevus, multae eruditionis philosophus et medicus, qui cum maxima laude et ipse Aristotelis libros est commentatus". - Insignificant browning with very slight brownstaining and worming near end (confined to margins); a few occasional humanist annotations with an 18th century handwritten note of acquisition (purchased from sale of the Wille library in St Petersburg) on the rear pastedown. A good, tight copy. VD 16, B 8525. Adams B 2928. BM-STC German 156. DSB II, 537. Ferchl 73. Wellcome I, 1106. Wightman 112. [Attributes:
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, . . Mennonite Encyclopedia II, p. 816; Simoni H-186; STCN (5 copies); cf. Knuttel, Kerkgeschiedenis, pp. 150-151 (later editions). The first Dutch edition (in the first state) of a detailed and graphic description of the Anabaptist attempt to establish a sectarian government in Münster, known as the Münster Rebellion, 1534-1535. The work includes a description of the Amsterdam Riots and is dedicated by the printer to the city council of Enkhuizen and by the author to the council of Amsterdam. The fine, anonymous plates vividly illustrate the persecution and subsequent execution of the Annabaptists. The plate on leaf 3 is erroneously repeated on leaf 5; in later states this error has been corrected.With the bookplate and owner's inscription. Slightly frayed at outer margins; some plates shaved; a few stains, also affecting some plates. Small pieces of vellum from front cover gone. A fair copy of a rare work on the Münster Rebellion.

Strasbourg: Apud Ioan. Schottvm, 1534 Fourth edition. 4to (303 x 215 mm.). 126, (1) pp. Half morocco, gilt-lettered spine with 2 raised bands. Illustrated with many large woordcuts in the text. Very good copy. Rare early edition of this famous work on the occult sciences: astrology, physiognomy and chiromancy, profusely illustrated with numerous woodcuts by Hans Baldung Grien and H. Wechtlin. Also called palmistry, chiromancy is the art of reading character and divination of the future by interpretation of the lines and undulations on the palm of the hand. For a full description and more images please visit www.zaalbooks.nl . [7500 EUR]

Ad 1: Köln (Apud Coloniam Agripp.), In officina Gymnici, 1534. Ad 2: Hagenau (Haganoae), Per Iohannem Secerium, 1529. 8vo. Ad 1: (XVI),783,(1 blank) p. Ad 2: (79),(1 blank) p. 16th century calf over wooden boards. 17 cm Two works on rhetoric (Ref: Ad 1: VD16 Q 93; Schweiger 2,843; cf. Fabricius/Ernesti 2,271; Graesse 5,528/29; cf. Ebert 18448. Ad 2: Not in VD16!, we nevertheless traced a few German copies in KVK) (Details: Back, with three raised bands, expertly repaired in antique style. Boards decorated with 2 rows of blind-stamped rolls, the first one with portraits, the second with floral motives. Ad 1: Woodcut printer's mark on the title, it depicts a scepter, on which a stork is resting; a hippocampus coiles around the base. Halfway the scepter hangs the motto: Discite iustitiam moniti, i.e Be warned, learn ye to be just' (and not to slight the gods). (Vergil, Aeneid 6,620, Loeb translation) At the beginning of each of the 12 books a woodcut initial. Ad. 2: Title with woodcut arabesque borders. Woodcut initials) (Condition: Boards chafed, portraits worn away. Some wear to the joints. Clasps and catches gone. Oval stamp on the first title; Ownership entry on the front pastedown. Three small worm holes in first three gatherings, one of them continuing up to p. 350) (Note: Ad 1: The Roman orator Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, ca. 35 - ca. 100 A.D., was under emperor Vespasian probably the first holder of the chair of Latin rhetoric in Rome paid by the fiscus (salarium e fisco accepit, Suetonius, Vesp. 17-19). His most celebrated work is the 'Institutio Oratoriae', in 12
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(Venetiis: in Aedibus Haerdum Aldi Manutti Romani, et Andreae Asula ni Soceri, 1534.), 1534. First Aldine edition of the works of Tacitus. Adams, Books Printed on the Continent of Europe 1501-1600, T25; Ahmanson-Murphy Collection 239; Kallendorf & Wells 251. Edges very slightly rubbed; a fine copy with wide margins.. 8vo, early 20th century dark red full morocco with the Aldine device gilt-stamped on the upper and lower boards, gilt decorated turn-ins, gilt lettering, a.e.g. A fine edition of Tacitus' works, printed at the famous press when it was under the stewardship of Aldus' son, Paulus Manutius. Some minor marginalia and what appear to be editorial deletions to the running titles on several pages of "castigationes."

1534. Folio (210 x 294 mm). (40), DXII, (8) pp. Title page printed in red and black. With large emblematic title woodcut after Albrecht Dürer, hand-coloured around 1730; woodcut printer's device on verso of final leaf. With coloured woodcut arms of Raimund Fugger, 7 large woodcut initials showing astronomical and mathematical motifs, and 184 woodcut illustrations. Text surrounded by various woodcut borders throughout. Contemp. vellum with ms. spine title. Only edition. - Printed at the expense of the banker Raimund Fugger, this work presents classical inscriptions and statues collected all over Europe (of which many were in Fugger's own collection). The text is based on earlier studies by Peutinger, Pirckheimer, and others. An exceptionally fine work from the private press of Peter Apianus (1495-1552), mainly known as a mathematician and geographer. Title woodcut by Hans Brosamer (after Dürer) and Fugger's coat of arms (by M. Ostendorfer) splendidly hand-coloured and raised in gilt; undoubtedly the work of the book's previous owner, Johann Spiegler, who signs his name beneath the imprint on the title page ("Annumeror libris Joannis Spiegleri Juliomagensis"). Spiegler is known as a Constance miniaturist active during the first half of the 18th century (cf. Brun, SKL III, 1913) and is sometimes identified with the Constance painter Franz Joseph (Johann) Spiegler (1691-1757; cf. Thieme/Becker XXXI, 370f.). - Slight dampstains and edge tears near end; occasional paper loss remargined. Page tt1r (the printed area of which reaches far into the margin) lacks the final character of
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1534. Folio (210 x 292 mm). (40), DXII, (8) pp. Title page printed in red and black. With large emblematic title woodcut after Albrecht Dürer, woodcut printer's device on verso of final leaf, woodcut arms of Raimund Fugger, 7 large woodcut initials showing astronomical and mathematical motifs, and 184 woodcut illustrations. Text surrounded by various woodcut borders throughout. 18th-century calf with gilt arms of Maximilian Ulrich von Kaunitz-Riedberg. All edges sprinkled in red. Only edition. - Printed at the expense of the banker Raimund Fugger, this work presents classical inscriptions and statues collected all over Europe (of which many were in Fugger's own collection). The text is based on earlier studies by Peutinger, Pirckheimer, and others. An exceptionally fine work from the private press of Peter Apianus (1495-1552), mainly known as a mathematician and geographer. - Binding rubbed and bumped at extremeties. Title and final page somewhat duststained; insignificant waterstain near beginning. Page tt1r (the printed area of which reaches far into the margin) is folded in; edge trimmed close to printed text, with slight loss to woodcut. Title has ms. ownership of Count Leopold Wilhelm von Kaunitz (1614-55), dated 1647; contemporary (autograph?) note about a 15th century tomb in Everdingen on recto of final leaf. Bound around 1720 for Leopold Wilhelm's grandson Maximilian Ulrich Graf von Kaunitz-Rietberg (1679-1746), Imperial statesman and governor of Moravia, father of the famous chancellor Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz-Rietberg. VD 16, A 3086. IA 106.422. Adams A 1291. BM-
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1534. Folio (212 x 308 mm). (186) ff. With full-page woodcut on fol. 6v showing Saints Cosmas and Damian, the patron saints of physicians. Contemporary full vellum binding. First edition of this Renaissance dictionary of natural science compiled by Otto Brunfels, the "father of German botany", best known for pioneering the emancipation of that field from mediaeval herbalism. "Brunfels' passion for compiling and organizing reference material [...] was fully exhibited in his 'Onomastikón', a comprehensive dictionary containing a wealth of material related to medicine, botany, alchemy, and metrology" (DSB). Designed "for the use of physicians and apothecaries" (ibid.), the volume bears ample witness to the pre-eminence of Arabic medicine during the Middle Ages and early modern period, including a long discussion of Galenus, whose works were channeled into the West mainly through Arabic scholars, and entries on Ibn Sina (Avicenna), "natione Arabs, [...] a medicis Princeps vocatur", as well as Ibn Rushd (Averroes), "Avicennae coaevus, multae eruditionis philosophus et medicus, qui cum maxima laude et ipse Aristotelis libros est commentatus". - Insignificant browning with very slight brownstaining and worming near end (confined to margins); a few occasional humanist annotations with an 18th century handwritten note of acquisition (purchased from sale of the Wille library in St Petersburg) on the rear pastedown. A good, tight copy. VD 16, B 8525. Adams B 2928. BM-STC German 156. DSB II, 537. Ferchl 73. Wellcome I, 1106. Wightman 112.